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"I’m not exactly protesting his conservative ideology, but it’s more about his speech and like his rhetoric that he uses to describe Hispanics and Latinos and just people of color in general," Annie Cardelle told the Salisbury Post. "In his speeches, he brings up people killed by immigrants, which there’s no basis that immigrants kill people more than everyday citizens. So, he’s contemplating that immigrants, and specifically Mexican and Hispanic immigrants, are criminals and murdering people."

"Neither of us thought that we’d get a photo with him," Annie Cardelle told The Huffington Post. "I actually wore a sweater over it because I thought that [otherwise] we wouldn’t get in."

Turns out the sweater really wasn’t necessary, as she was able to wear it in front of three event staffers who "looked them over" and let them pose with the Trumps.

"I was sort of in disbelief when they actually called us forward," Ceci Cardelle, 17, told Buzzfeed. "I was like, ’This is not happening. There’s no way they don’t see this shirt.’"

The two sisters are second-generation Americans of Cuban descent, as Buzzfeed noted, and Annie Cardelle was the one came up with the idea of the shirt.

"It’s been almost two years of Trump continuously putting down Latinos, making us feel like we don’t belong. So, my whole thing was to go there and say, ’I’m Latina and we’re against you because of what you say about our race,’" Annie Cardelle told the news site.

"We’re American citizens, our parents are American citizens, and our grandparents are American citizens," Ceci Cardelle told the Salisbury Post. "It’s this whole idea that you don’t really belong here, in this country, and that you’re not from here. We’re supposed to go back to where we are from, but we’ve lived here our whole lives."

The tweet and photo from Annie Cardelle has been liked over 14,000 times since it was first posted on Friday, and has been retweeted over 8,000 times, as well.